houseboat
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houseboats
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verb (used without object)
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They had first met while living in the Brithdir Mawr community in west Wales, then lived on a houseboat, and another community in Meifod, Powys, before applying for the one rental unit at Dol-llys.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
The spokesperson said she owns a houseboat near the boats she boarded in Sausalito and, not being of sound mind, believed she was on a vessel she owned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Nenna, an unemployed 32-year-old musician, lives in a leaky houseboat with her two young daughters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Polanski has been under pressure to explain whether the houseboat, moored at a marina in east London, had been his primary residence.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
The name of this houseboat is The Mystery.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
After declining in use, "a restoration movement came about in the '60s" and people began to live on canal houseboats, Clarke said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
According to local news outlets, Redwood City council told people living in houseboats in the marina to leave because the boats were blocking public access to a state waterway.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2024
After owning timeshares of smaller houseboats for a decade, Salmon purchased one-ninth of an Adonia luxury houseboat in 2015.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
“The houseboats and vessels that workers were quarantined on have fully stocked kitchens, bedrooms, and bathrooms,” the company filing said.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2023
Tied up along its shores was every conceivable kind of watercraft— Chinese junks, tugboats, rickety houseboats, old schooners, and barges heaped with jumbles of industrial cargo.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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